On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 10:26 PM, Roman Shaposhnik <ro...@shaposhnik.org> wrote:

>> P.S.: Why anyone would think voting on binaries makes any kind of sense
>> around here is, of course, a different question. I can't even begin to
>> count the number of times it's been pointed out that binaries are not
>> Apache releases.
>
> And yet that issue keeps rearing its ugly head. Given the amount
> of traffic I've seen around clarifying some finer (and not so fine)
> points of release/licensing implication it is about time we start
> an FAQ on that. Me thinks at least.

We have several release FAQs spread across the ASF, though -- which, taken
together, are comprehensive beyond the point of excess.

The problem is that we lack a concise policy document.  That's where the "ASF
release policy codification proposal" as worked through on legal-discuss a few
months ago is supposed to help.

  http://s.apache.org/aGm
  https://github.com/rectang/asfrelease

It's delayed because I got swamped but it seems that the need has not
diminished.

Marvin Humphrey

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